Catherine Flemming

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Catherine H. Flemming (born February 2, 1967 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German film actress .

Life

Origin and education

Catherine H. Flemming grew up in her native Karl-Marx-Stadt; she wanted to be an actress even as a child. In her youth she did ballet and athletics . She initially received her acting training at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . At the beginning of 1988 she fled the GDR . During her subsequent stay in the United States she attended courses in New York at Marcia Haufrecht and at the Actors Studio by Lee Strasberg . She then toured Great Britain for some time with the Shakespeare Ensemble , a traveling theater . In 1999 she later played theater again, in the Off-Theater in Miami , directed by David Schweitzer.

Beginnings as an actress

In 1994 Flemming stood in front of the camera for the first time while filming various TV works. Since then she has worked regularly for film and television. Her first television work was the series Um die 30 , which was first broadcast in 1995. She embodied the role of Sabrina Schneider. She played her first leading role as Tina in the television film Cuba Libre (1996), in which Richy Müller was her partner.

Flemming first achieved greater fame with her role in the movie Hunger - Sehnsucht nach Liebe from 1997. In the directorial debut of actress Dana Vávrová , Flemming played the role of Laura alongside Kai Wiesinger and Christiane Hörbiger . She played the successful marketing director for a toy company suffering from bulimia . In 1998 she was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize for “Best Young Actress” for her performance .

Further career

In the movie Die Unberührbare (2000) she took on the supporting role of Isabelle; it was her first collaboration with director Oskar Roehler . She had another role under Roehler's direction in the television film Fahr zur Hölle, Sister, shot in 2001 and released in 2002 . , in which she played the role of the mother of two enemy sisters ( Hannelore Elsner / Iris Berben ). At the end of 2000, director Brigitte Müller's film Der Himmel Can Wait had its cinema premiere . In the tragicomedy Flemming played the role of young Ivette at the side of Frank Giering and Steffen Wink . In 2001 she was seen in the television comedy Die Meute der Erben alongside Günter Pfitzmann . She played the single, divorced pharmacist and mother Ina, who, as Pfitzmann's new neighbor, was betrayed by a seedy construction company while renovating her apartment. In the first episodes of the television series Bloch (2002) she played Clara Born, the new partner of the psychiatrist and psychotherapist Dr. Maximilian Bloch ( Dieter Pfaff ); her role was taken over by Ulrike Krumbiegel in the later episodes .

In the international two-part TV series Casanova - I love all women (2002) she played Elena Foscarini, the mistress of the French ambassador Francois de Bernis ( Thierry Lhermitte ), with whom Casanova falls madly in love. In 2002 she played the young woman in the short film Snipers Alley, alongside Leopold Hornung . In Polizeiruf 110 - Tief Wunden (2003), Flemming played Katja Trenk, the former "great love" of Detective Chief Inspector Tauber ( Edgar Selge ), one of three bank robbers whose pursuit the investigator lost his arm during an operation. In the two-part German television film Das Blut der Templer (2004), Flemming was again seen in a historical role. She embodied Lucrezia de Saintclair, the grand master of a secret order. In the television comedy Beautiful Men You Never Have to Be Alone (2004) she was Linda as a member of a clique of friends who spend their singles evenings bowling ; her partners were Elena Uhlig , Nina Petri and Anna Böttcher . In 2005, she and Bela B. recorded a setting of the novella Venus im Pelz as an audio book.

From 2006 to 2009 she was Marietta in the TV crime series Commissario Laurenti ; she embodied, at the side of Henry Hübchen , the assistant of Commissario Laurenti. Flemming described her role as Marietta in an interview with the words "cheeky, self-confident, sexy, maybe mysterious ..."

In the two-parter Afrika, mon amour (2007) she played Martha von Strahlberg, who was pregnant with an illegitimate child, and the sister-in-law of the main female character Katharina von Strahlberg (Iris Berben). In the movie Die Teufelskicker (2010) she was the mother of the young soccer player Catrina ( Cosima Henman ) at the side of Armin Rohde , Mrs. Rothkirch . In the fairy tale film Des Emperor's New Clothes (2010) she played the court tailor Adele. She played the famous violin virtuoso Hanna Reich in the film drama Wunderkinder (2011), directed by Marcus O. Rosenmüller . She played the leading roles in the German-Austrian television film Die Holzbaronin (2012), with Christine Neubauer and Henriette Confurius the role of Hetty Seitz, who is brutally raped by the Russian slave laborer Pawel ( Robert Besta ). In Polizeiruf 110: Before all eyes (first broadcast: May 2013) she played the role of Michaela Stolze; she was the new head of a boatyard , who had had diabetes for years .

In the TV film An Open Cage (first broadcast: September 2014) she played Katja Heinrich, a rape victim. Flemming had done extensive research on the subject in preparation for her role and had met with victims and with sex offenders who were serving their prison sentences. In the tragic comedy Auf das Leben! , which came to German cinemas in November 2014, she was directed by Uwe Janson , in the role of the mentally unstable Lydia, who is housed in a closed psychiatric institution, alongside Hannelore Elsner, Nikola Kastner and Markus Maria Profitlich .

Catherine Flemming also starred several times in the ARD television series Tatort . She had her first appearance in the Tatort: ​​Von Bullen und Bären (first broadcast: June 2000), in which she played Michaela Rambeck, the “young dynamic”, “charming” boss of a long-established Berlin metal company. In Tatort: ​​Schlaf, Kindlein, Schlaf (first broadcast: June 2002) she played the journalist Barbara Stein, who wants to take revenge on a sex offender whose victim she became 15 years ago. In the crime scene: Solar eclipse (first broadcast: January 2006) she was Katharina Dettmer, the boss of a Leipzig cheese dairy, whose driver Ludwig Noack is found dead. In the WDR Tatort: ​​Platt made (first broadcast: October 2009) she embodied the financially troubled lawyer Gesine Stürmer, who wants to get her cousin out of the way, who can expect an inheritance of millions, by setting a private detective on him. In the crime scene: Spoiler (first broadcast: November 2015) she played Vera Graschow, the widow of a Bundeswehr pilot and neighbor of the murder victim, who followed the investigation with little information and in silence.

For the ZDF , Flemming occasionally took on work in the entertainment television genre. She played in the ZDF television series Das Traumschiff (Vietnam, 2008) and Cruise to Luck (Chile, 2008); She was also the scheming housekeeper Jane in the Rosamunde Pilcher film Dangerous Surf (2011).

Flemming played the Duchess of Kent , the mother of Queen Victoria , in the British ITV series Victoria , which was broadcast in 2016 . In the TV fairytale film Rübezahl's Treasure (2017), she played one of the main roles as the scheming Baroness von Harrant, who wants to plunder the gold treasures of the mountain spirit.

In the 7th and 8th film in the Lotta film series by ZDF, Lotta & der Schöne Schein (2019) and Lotta & der Zentrum der Welt (2019), Flemming played the leading role as the alternative healer Maren, the new esoteric friend of Lotta's father ( Frank Röth ).

Role type

Flemming often played roles that “require strength and ability”. Their roles often combined the role type of victim and perpetrator. Flemming played roles in which she “combines attractiveness with charisma”. The director Joseph Vilsmaier called her the " Michelle Pfeiffer of Germany". Flemming herself claims to be "truthful and believable" for portraying her roles.

Commitment and private matters

In 2008, Flemming and Bela B. stood in front of the camera for a poster and advertisement campaign for the animal welfare organization PETA in Hamburg. The ad motif had the motto: “I can choose my pain, animals can't!”. In 2011, Flemming was part of the jury for the NDR Feature Film Award at the 53rd Nordic Film Festival in Lübeck, together with Ronald Zehrfeld , Ewa Karlström , Lars Jessen and Angelika Paetow .

Flemming is single and childless; she has a total of six sponsored children. She is a soccer fan ; she also loves the works of Jack London and Oscar Wilde . She lives on the outskirts of Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Manfred Hobsch / Ralf Krämer / Klaus Rathje: Filmszene D. The 250 most important young German stars from cinema and TV . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. December 2004. Page 126/127. ISBN 978-3-89602-511-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Catherine Fleming at prisma.de , accessed on April 21, 2014
  2. a b c d e f g h Katrin Hampel: Catherine Flemming ( Memento from June 26, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Portrait and interview. Official website of the rbb . Retrieved June 25, 2015
  3. a b c d e Catherine Flemming: "Confident, fast, sexy ..." Interview with Catherine Flemming; In: Westfälische Nachrichten of January 9, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2015
  4. Police call 110: Deep wounds . Plot, cast and picture gallery. Official website of Bayerisches Fernsehen . Retrieved December 5, 2018.
  5. a b c Maradona made her a football fan portrait; in: Berliner Morgenpost from March 12, 2010. Accessed June 26, 2015
  6. a b Three questions for Catherine Flemming . Internet presence Das Erste . Retrieved June 26, 2015.
  7. a b Drama about sex offenders - A person is not born bad Interview with Catherine Flemming and Oliver Mommsen ; in: Berliner Morgenpost of September 3, 2014. Accessed June 26, 2015.
  8. The Berlin commissioners are now to assert themselves with an improved profile: Of bulls and bears . TV review; in: Hamburger Abendblatt dated June 3, 2000. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  9. ^ Crime scene from the CRC "Of Bulls and Bears" . Press release from Bavaria Film GmbH of May 21, 2000. Accessed on September 17, 2016.
  10. ^ Tatort criticism: Sympathy for the Luftwaffe . TV review; In: Potsdam Latest News from November 22, 2015. Accessed September 17, 2016.
  11. ... Skies are blue ( Memento from September 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). TV review; in: Heilbronn Voice of November 17, 2015. Accessed on September 17, 2016.
  12. Victoria: Catherine Flemming on playing the Queen Mum ( memento of October 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Interview about her role in Victoria on STV.tv, accessed on October 18, 2016.
  13. Lotta & the center of the world . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  14. Series "Lotta & the beautiful appearance / & the center of the world" . TV review at tittelbach.tv . Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  15. a b Bela B. and Catherine Flemming show themselves in a provocative pose ( memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Internet presence PETA . November 2008. Retrieved June 26, 2015
  16. Catherine Flemming and Ronald Zehrfeld in the jury of the NDR feature film award ; Official website of the 57th Nordic Film Days Lübeck. Retrieved June 30, 2015